I located, during my “The Late Neo-Romanian style” architecture tour a couple of weeks ago, an exterior lamp of that design, which is a rare object, with only a handful of such artifacts still surviving throughout Bucharest. I already documented three other Neo-Romanian lamp finds in the following articles: incense burner shape lamps, lantern-like lamp and Greek cross shape lamp. In this particular example, the relic is attached to an elaborate wood and concrete-modelled corbel, being made from molded glass meshed in an attractive wire pattern in tone with the decorations featured on corbel ends. It decorates a late Neo-Romanian style house dating from the mid-1930s, which features a large access stair covered by an extensive roof eave supported at regular intervals by corbels, all originally embellished with the interesting glass and wire lamp model presented in this article.
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I endeavour through this series of periodic articles to inspire appreciation of the historic houses of Romania, a virtually undiscovered, but fascinating chapter of European architectural history and heritage.
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Valentin Mandache, architectural historian 